Role of Microalgae in Global CO2 Sequestration: Physiological Mechanism, Recent Development, Challenges, and Future Prospective

R Prasad, SK Gupta, N Shabnam, CYB Oliveira… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The rising concentration of global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) has severely affected
our planet's homeostasis. Efforts are being made worldwide to curb carbon dioxide …

Energy crosstalk between photosynthesis and the algal CO2-concentrating mechanisms

A Burlacot, G Peltier - Trends in Plant Science, 2023 - cell.com
Microalgal photosynthesis is responsible for nearly half of the CO 2 annually captured by
Earth's ecosystems. In aquatic environments where the CO 2 availability is low, the CO 2 …

Modelling the pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanism provides insights into its operating principles and a roadmap for its engineering into crops

C Fei, AT Wilson, NM Mangan, NS Wingreen… - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
Many eukaryotic photosynthetic organisms enhance their carbon uptake by supplying
concentrated CO2 to the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco in an organelle called the pyrenoid …

Alternative photosynthesis pathways drive the algal CO2-concentrating mechanism

A Burlacot, O Dao, P Auroy, S Cuiné, Y Li-Beisson… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Global photosynthesis consumes ten times more CO2 than net anthropogenic emissions,
and microalgae account for nearly half of this consumption. The high efficiency of algal …

New horizons for building pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms in plants to improve yields

L Adler, A Díaz-Ramos, Y Mao, KR Pukacz… - Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Many photosynthetic species have evolved CO2-concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) to
improve the efficiency of CO2 assimilation by Rubisco and reduce the negative impacts of …

A promiscuous mechanism to phase separate eukaryotic carbon fixation in the green lineage

J Barrett, MIS Naduthodi, Y Mao, C Dégut, S Musiał… - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
CO2 fixation is commonly limited by inefficiency of the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco.
Eukaryotic algae concentrate and fix CO2 in phase-separated condensates called …

Prospects for Engineering Biophysical CO2 Concentrating Mechanisms into Land Plants to Enhance Yields

JH Hennacy, MC Jonikas - Annual review of plant biology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Although cyanobacteria and algae represent a small fraction of the biomass of all primary
producers, their photosynthetic activity accounts for roughly half of the daily CO2 fixation that …

[HTML][HTML] Pyrenoids: CO2-fixing phase separated liquid organelles

J Barrett, P Girr, LCM Mackinder - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pyrenoids are non-membrane bound organelles found in chloroplasts of algae and hornwort
plants that can be seen by light-microscopy. Pyrenoids are formed by liquid-liquid phase …

Rhodopsin-bestrophin fusion proteins from unicellular algae form gigantic pentameric ion channels

A Rozenberg, I Kaczmarczyk, D Matzov… - Nature structural & …, 2022 - nature.com
Many organisms sense light using rhodopsins, photoreceptive proteins containing a retinal
chromophore. Here we report the discovery, structure and biophysical characterization of …

The pyrenoid: the eukaryotic CO2-concentrating organelle

S He, VL Crans, MC Jonikas - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The pyrenoid is a phase-separated organelle that enhances photosynthetic carbon
assimilation in most eukaryotic algae and the land plant hornwort lineage. Pyrenoids …